Despite seeming like a relatively stable place, the Earth's surface has changed dramatically over the past 4.6 billion years. Mountains have been built and eroded, continents and oceans have moved ...

Despite seeming like a relatively stable place, the Earth's surface has changed dramatically over the past 4.6 billion years. Mountains have been built and eroded, continents and oceans have moved ...

Ammonite fossils, an example is shown here, are sea creatures that became extinct about 65 million years ago. Fossil remains have been found in rocks of all ages. Fossils of the simplest organisms ...

In 1993 Schopf published a paper about some microfossils he had found in Early Archaean rocks, which he claimed were the ...

Ammonite fossils, an example is shown here, are sea creatures that became extinct about 65 million years ago. Fossil remains have been found in rocks of all ages. Fossils of the simplest organisms ...

which generally destroys any fossils that were in the rock before it was metamorphosed. For example, marble is created when limestone is pressure-cooked within the earth, causing the minerals that ...

CARSON CITY, Nev. (KOLO) -The Western Nevada College Geology Club holds its annual Rock, Mineral and Fossil Sale Friday from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. in Room 322 of the Bristlecone Building on the Carson ...

Even if the bone or shell dissolves, the mineral deposits in the shape of the body structure remain. Besides rock, fossils may be found as the result of an organism being entombed in ice ...

Old Rock Day on January 7 honors the significance of rocks, fossils, and Earth's geological history. Discover ways to ...

About 30 more rocks containing dinosaur fossils have been found on a remote island off the northern part of Hong Kong, just two months after the first such discovery was revealed. Authorities also ...